Brandon Quittem

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What Bitcoin Did · The Next 10 Years Will Decide Bitcoin’s Future | Brandon Quittem · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

So it's like a reputation-based, follow whoever you want.

Groups are fluid.

They would break apart, come together.

And that was their strength, essentially.

So what the U.S.

did was they gave them 100 cows.

So here's 100 head of cattle, which is a lot of wealth.

Then the leaders of the little groups come together and they say, hey, how are we going to distribute this wealth?

Now this symbolic power becomes real power.

That led to their decline over time.

They started creating committees and figuring out where the wealth goes.

Then that decentralized social hierarchy, which made them very anti-fragile, all of a sudden starts to hurt them.

Then they ended up on the reservation.

And so obviously the parallel here is the Bitcoiners have that same decentralized social hierarchy and that the cautionary tale is like, beware of the golden cow, right?

Don't allow wealth or paper Bitcoin or any of these looming threats to subvert the culture from the inside.

If we do, Bitcoin ends up on the reservation.

On the reservation, of course, means the revolutionary properties are neutered and

Maybe we get to live out our days with our Bitcoin wealth and we're happy, but we fumbled the opportunity here in front of us and that would be a shame.

Yeah, I think it comes back to paper Bitcoin being the biggest threat right now.

If the supply is so hyper-concentrated and a handful of custodians that the US government can lean on, I think that becomes a very serious risk.

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